Ann: Half Yearly Results Timing & Investor Update Call, page-40

I am old enough to remember when people used to refer to Toyota as 'Jap crap'

Yes the early cars were lacking in quality although the Chinese have imported a lot of expertise.

I was watching a Sandy Munro opinion piece on YouTube (He owns a business that advises companies on engineering and regularly deconstructs EV, to build reports that he sells to other companies around how they are made) talking about his pre COVID experience of going to China and advising plus presenting to various forums and companies around how to improve manufacturing of Electric vehicles.

He is an experienced guy and knows a lot of people in the business. He remarked on how many European top engineers are designers he bumped into over there, who had been brought in to design cars from the ground up and remove these flaws.

They are learning quickly